evidence of a narrowing gender gap with the policy. On the contrary, the gender gap in urban areas in post-compulsory schooling …-force participation rate, bring about this widening gender gap. …

Oceania with the PISA 2009 data from 45 origin countries or regions. In addition to the level of societal gender equality of … the origin and destination countries (the gender empowerment measure, or GEM) we use macro indicators of the educational … higher levels of gender equality have higher reading scores than comparable migrant sons (but this is not the case for math …

European countries, studying cross-country and cross-cluster differences in intergenerational mobility; the role of gender in … of Europe. Further, we find evidence of differences in intergenerational persistence by gender, with mothers’ education …

testable hypotheses about the gender effects of entrepreneurial culture. The principal hypothesis is that there is a greater … different entrepreneurial cultures show greater similarity of behaviour (lower variance) than men. But proportionate gender gaps …

Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the …